“Escape” ordinary volume activities with this engaging volume escape room that will have students solving volume challenges on a quest for a lost civilization.
Find a Lost Civilization With Our Volume Escape Room!
Take your students on an exciting adventure with The Lost Civilization, a volume escape room that transforms math practice into a thrilling challenge! In this digital escape room, students will solve four engaging tasks related to finding volume, unlocking codes as they work through problems involving rectangular prisms and real-world objects like treasure chests and ancient artifacts. Along the way, they’ll also tackle “missing side” problems, sharpening their critical thinking skills. Bring math to life with this immersive escape room experience!
This volume escape room resource includes:
- “The Lost Civilization” digital escape room (Google Slides format)
- “The Lost Civilization” digital escape room (PowerPoint format)
- Student workbook (Google Slides format)
- Student workbook (PDF format)
- Answer keys
Our volume escape room is a great lesson for the whole class, small groups, or as a fast finisher or math center activity.
Playing Our Volume Math Game
This volume math game is minimal preparation and maximum fun! Here’s how to quickly ready this resource to get your students learning:
- Download the escape room and matching student workbook in the formats of your choice.
- Make a copy of the student workbook for each student, and have them cut and assemble the pages in order.
- Ensure that all participating students have access to the digital escape room, whether the activity is on display to the whole class or to each individual group.
- Students should put the escape room in “Slideshow” mode and follow the instructions on the slides and in their workbooks.
- Once students have completed all the work and found all the codes, they can consult you or the answer key to see if they have escaped!
Grab This and Other Finding Volume Games
This and other finding volume games and resources are yours with the click of a button! Just click the dropdown arrow on the download button and choose between the Google Slides or PowerPoint format of this resource.
This resource was created by Kendall Britnell, a teacher in Colorado and a Teach Starter collaborator.
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